“When I am dictator, compulsive homosexuality will remove the problem of children.†—Stephin Merritt [VV]
“This is one of those things that I’m gonna get killed for saying, but I didn’t really pay attention to the recent films — which I probably should have. But I just didn’t. For whatever reason, I just wasn’t as much of a fan as friends of mine were of the Trek films.†—
“This is my first step in a Transformers-style way to take over the whole world.†—Mindy Kaling has yet to realize her new show will air on NBC [Variety]
“If you ever talk to a TV writer or a movie writer who say they don’t like TV or movies, you should find them and hit them in the face.†—Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence [AV Club]
“You also don’t want it to be that reunion show or movie where you see — like when the Brady Bunch had a reunion and they were old.†—Jennifer Aniston on what a Friends reunion should not look like, but ultimately would [MTV]
“He’s my victim. I love to take as much money off of him as possible.†—Edward Norton on playing poker with Woody Harrelson [NYDN via Contact Music]
“‘It’s a collection of cliches and stock characters which I can’t see as being anything but a disaster.’†—John Cleese reveals a rejection letter from the BBC when Fawlty Towers was first pitched in 1974 [Contact Music]